NHL entry draft in review

New York, June 25, 2011 – New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather, along with Director of Player Personnel, Gordie Clark, oversaw the club’s activity in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft on Friday, June 24 and Saturday, June 25 at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. The club, which held six picks in the draft, selected four forwards and two defensemen.

The Rangers began the draft Friday by selecting forward J.T. Miller with the 15th overall pick. The 6-1, 200-pounder led Team USA in scoring with 13 points in six tournament contests en route to capturing the gold medal at the 2011 IIHF U-18 World Junior Championship in Germany. He was selected by tournament coaches as Team USA’s top player during the elite tournament after leading Team USA in points and assists (nine), and finishing second on the team in goals (four) and plus/minus rating (plus-eight). Miller skated in 48 games with the U.S. National Under-18 Team (USHL) last season, registering 11 goals and 26 assists for 37 points, along with 80 penalty minutes. He established USHL career-highs in games played, assists, points, and penalty minutes, and ranked third on the team in points, and second in assists and penalty minutes. The East Palestine, Ohio native entered the 2011 NHL Entry Draft as the third-highest ranked U.S.-born skater and 23rd overall among North American skaters in the final Central Scouting Rankings.

The second day of the draft began with a trade for New York, sending forward Evgeny Grachev to St. Louis in exchange for a third round choice (72nd overall). The Rangers selected Edina Hornets (High-MN) forward Steven Fogarty with the pick. Fogarty led the Hornets with career-highs in goals (23), points (40), plus/minus rating (plus-14), game-winning goals (four), and shorthanded goals (two), tied for second with a career-high in assists (17), and third in power play goals (three). He recorded a career-high, nine multi-point performances, including three hat tricks. He notched a career-high, four goals, and added two assists to tie his career-high with six points on January 27 vs. Hopkins. The Chambersburg, Pennsylvania native also led the Hornets with 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in six playoff games en route to a fourth-place finish in the High-MN Class AA State Tournament.

In the fourth round at the 106th position, the Rangers tabbed Winnipeg, Manitoba native Michael St. Croix from the WHL’s Edmonton Oil Kings. St. Croix established career-highs in games played (68), goals (27), assists (48), points (75), power play goals (nine), penalty minutes (48), and plus/minus rating (plus-28) last season. He led the Oil Kings in assists, ranked second in points and power play goals, and third in goals and plus/minus rating. The 5-11, 179-pounder was ranked as high as 36th overall among North American skaters in the Central Scouting midterm rankings.

The Blueshirts held a pair of picks in the fifth round, selecting forward Shane McColgan with the 134th overall choice and defenseman Samuel Noreau with the 136th overall selection. McColgan registered 21 goals and 45 assists for 66 points, along with 62 penalty minutes in 67 games with the Kelowna Rockets (WHL) last season. He led Kelowna in points, ranked second in assists and fifth in goals. Noreau tallied 10 points (five goals, five assists) and 141 penalty minutes in 67 games with Baie-Comeau Drakkar (QMJHL) last season. The 6-5, 215-pounder ranked seventh in the league and second on Baie-Comeau in penalty minutes. New York closed out their 2011 draft by selecting Trencin Jr. (Slovakia-JR.) defenseman Peter Ceresnak in the sixth round (172nd overall). The Rangers acquired the pick earlier in the day from the Nashville Predators in exchange for a sixth round selection in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.

Overall, the Rangers selected four forwards and two defensemen, three from Canadian junior hockey leagues, two from U.S. hockey leagues and one from a European hockey league, and three Americans, two Canadians and one European. The average weight of the Rangers draft picks was 195 pounds, while the average height of the 2011 New York draft class was 6’1”.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (June 25, 2011) – A total of 210 players from 14 countries were selected at the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, which concluded today at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Following is a breakdown of Entry Draft selections by birthplace:

One thing LB is wrong about is that Drury doesn’t have to be placed on waivers prior to the buyout because of his NMC. He needs to be offered the waiver option, and if he refuses, he can be bought out.

And Cam Hope is leaving? I hope Slats finds someone who is a good capologist…

I am reposting an honorable post by LIQUID: *ORR, you spend a tremendous amount of time on this blog. I am guessing you are in your 20’s……You should put the same amount of passion and time into something more constructive like schooling or a career. Thank goodness the internet was not around at the height of my NY Rangers hang-up/obsessive years (1978-1996)………..I will always remember my Dad yelling at me to do my homework….all i cared about is if bobby carpenter would be the answers to all our prayers with ridley and miller going to the caps….lol……or if johnny orgrodnick would put the puck in the net rather than hitting freakin’ post every game.*

no need to apologize to me, posters are responsible for their own content. I just think sometimes, some people need to put the ego’s aside, and take the high road, instead of continually dragging down the conversation with veiled insults, direct insults, and mocking other people’s opinions.

Blogging at it’s core is about sharing opinions, and prompting discussion from a wide audience. We should remember that.

I realize I too at times have been guilty of being condescending, and making veiled insults. So i posted a general apology if anyone has been offended or insulted by some of my posts… and i continually work on self improvement and being more open minded to different opinions on topics.

I am by no means perfect, and i’m not trying to preach to everyone here, but conversation goes much better when differering opinions can be discussed in an insult free environment, and where facts and stats dominate the conversation… not who is or isn’t a troll, and who’s this and that.

Nice move by LA to get Colin Fraser out of the deal rather than Brule.. while Fraser may never see ice time in LA, he’s still capable of centering the fourth line if need be, and his cap hit is more friendly.

Mr. Klein: I appreciate your admonition to someone here, as regards youth being a time for serious and academic matters, with, ideally and practically, less time devoted to sports blogging.

There is a good, solid answer to sports obsessiveness, which I define as the subordinating of all other considerations to a sports fanaticism. And that is to take one’s passion, for whichever sport, to the level of pursuing that passion as a career field. So that, initially, an emphasis on education is mandatory. If you want to call the games, play-by-play, to have any chance to become the next Marv Albert, you attend the Syracuse School of Radio or Journalism, or whatever it is called. You want to become a G.M. you take serious courses in college and then get an M.B.A. or a law degree. You have a vision of becoming a sports team owner, you pursue the high tech/entreprenurial road such as Mark Cuban has done, so diligently and successfully. You want to own a hockey club, and/or a basketball team, you first make your mark in commercial real estate investing, so that one day, you have the leverage to buy out Jack Kent Cooke, both his teams and his L.A. Forum. Or, as a child, you start collecting rare coins to such an extent that the day comes when you own a private membership Beverly Hills art gallery, plus the local NHL hockey team.

So you are right, a kid can get bogged (blogged) down in his monomaniac obsession with sports, but to his future entrenchment as a real “player” in our society, not just as a cheap seats fan. It all comes down to the vision he has for his own life, and begs the question – does he even have one?

I respectfully request that you read earlier posts from today, and if you are not going to offer something to further hockey or hockey related discussion, that you please refrain from engaging in regressive behavior.

Boom I want to thank you for your appreciation, but I cannot take the credit. All credit must go to LIQUID for his noble and honorable admonition. I do not think ORR is a sports fanatic. In fact, I do not think ORR has any devotion to the Rangers. In short, ORR is the class clown always seeking attention so to answer your question, I do not think ORR has one.

ORR…I have posted here many times over the years. Not as much last season. I did watch the majority of the 2010 -11 Rangers games though. It was a so-so season again of mediocrity. In regard to my post to you, in no way was I looking to diss you or start a rally of other posters to pile on top and break your onions……I was simply writing that as advice, as your commitment to the Rangers is extreme with the amount of precious time you are on here writing about them or defending yourself against other bloggers. Basically you remind me of me when I was younger. Just with experience i can tell you that there are more important things you can be doing with your time. That’s all. There is an old saying, “Don’t learn from your own mistakes, learn from others.”……..

Oh and btw, I hope that is Bobby Orr (maybe top 3 ever to play the game of hockey?) that you have moniker-ed yourself afterwards and not that circle jerk ex nobody, Colton Orr. If it is good ole’ Colton…then atleast consider a change to like a Prust or perhaps Cally….If you wanna go a little old school, maybe a Gravey or Kocur…and if you wanna go pre-historic, perhaps McPhee or fossil time with Fotiu……lol Colton Orr was garbage for this team except when he knocked out Todd Fedoruk of the Flyers….that did rule. $-)

Precious time? You realize it takes literally seconds to type something, and click “submit comment”? It also takes literally seconds to read a comment. Maybe it doesn’t for you, but it does for most people.

Somer, LOL! That’s how it starts!

Some say that the reason the parents did that was because the kid took a peak at his presents before Christmas. Still a pretty fugged up thing to do.

Again, ungentlemanly conduct on the part of ORR. “Liquified semen” I feel horrified for the good ladies of the blog that are subjected to read such ungentlemanly comments. Where is our fearless blog captain to quash such comments?

ORR, actually the name “LIQUID” is due to me working hard for the past 10+ years and making money. I simply gave you some Ranger brotherly advice and you come back at me with stats on how fast it takes to read and write on a blog and then proceed to use my moniker in a childish and juvenille manner.

Well, good luck, buddy boy…..I hope your campagin to show everyone how smart you are here on the Rangers LoHud works out for you. I am sure the young ladies of this world are knocking down your door and the top colleges/employers want a piece of you with your dedication.

Don’t get on my case, just because it takes you a half hour to read, and another hour hour to type. You must be one of those audio book lovers. That’s a bad habit. As for the typing, take a computer class, or something.

LOL! Yesterday when I said “we don’t need anymore dopey Rangers fan”, truer words could not have been spoken.

Klein, can you give it a rest? We are here to make friends, and chat about life & hockey, and laugh, none of us are here to make “internet enemies”… I don’t take this blog for granted

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So, I missed the NHL Draft because I was at a wedding out of town all weekend…but thank Avery (God) for smartphones!!

The Grachev trade is not good for the Rangers…but it is great for Grachev as he will probably make the Blues next season and now has a fresh start. I would not at all be surprised if he became an impact NHL player. The Blues need a big power-winger after trading Brad Boyes to the Baby Buffaloes…Grachev is a defensively responsible player (with huge offensive upside) and can play at the NHL level. Even though he didn’t put up points with the NYR, he didn’t look out of place in his 8 game stint…

Grachev is a good hockey player with excellent raw talent. We should have been able to at least acquire a legit prospect for him…I wonder if we could have got Filatov

Anyway, I hope this doesn’t come back to bite us if/when Grachev puts up a 35-goal season…

I’m not going to lose sleep over it, but he is definitely too young to be considered a “bust”…

Not to take sides, but Orr had been on pretty good behavior lately until people started poking him with sticks. If you can’t take his humor with a grain of salt, then just ignore his posts. He brings a lot to the table, and he is not looking for attention. Again, I don’t agree with everything he does, but geez.

When my daughter reads the blog and gets offended by the ungentlemanly like posts, it becomes personal. I should not have to enter Rangers Lohud into a block list so that my daughter cannot visit it. P.S. Since when is poking with sticks an excuse for offensive language towards women or men. That does not add up.

Since when is making excuses about other people’s behavior an excuse to poke people with sticks?

And yes, people’s sons and daughters shouldn’t have to read ungentlemanly posts that are offensive to women.

P.S. You have to click a link to read comments. That is also done optionally, so neither you, nor your daughters, or anyone elses brother, sister, cousin, niece, or nephew HAS to read anything.

That being said. Clean it up boys and girls. And Manny, Orr, and others, PLEASE stop the inflammitory remarks. No blame, no finger pointing, just please… knock it the hell off.
NOTHING gets accomplished while everyone else is busy placing blame.

LOOK AT YOURSELF, AND WHAT YOU CAN DO BETTER TO IMPROVE THE ATMOSPHERE.

Gift Criticizing other’s behavior on a family blog is not poking people with sticks. P.S. Reading comments is something my daughter enjoys, you know, being a RANGERS FAN. To repeat, I should not have to place Rangers Lohud on a block list to prevent her from reading offensive language towards men or women, or comments that involve banging women or liquified semen. I feel that is not much to ask. If Carp and the ladies of the blog are comfortable with such demeaning language…

…shouldn’t have to put it on block, but that is a decision i leave you to make on your own.

And criticizing someone’s behavior is absolutely 100% poking people with sticks. Since you had a disguised reference to male genitals and Orr in a demeaning manor in your own moniker.

So by initiating, participating, and resonding to other people’s behavior on this family blog in a negative fashion yourself, wouldn’t your daughter read the very type of language you are saying she shouldn’t have to read?

Now we can nitpick, and you can tell me you never mentioned liquified you know what… But what if your daughter asked you ” Daddy what does orr is a carcillo sucker mean? “

I just think he needs to play…It’s funny, I thought he looked better in camp 2 years ago, when he was straight out of the OHL. There was serious talk of him possibly making the team as he had a good pre-season…It makes you wonder if his confidence was hurt by it and that he didnt want to play in the AHL, and if that’s the case, then I’m not sad to see him go. Who needs a another Euro(pansy) headcase?

What little I saw of Grachev I was not impressed. He did nothing. I didn’t see him play in the AHL, but the guy was supposed to be a scorer and he didn’t exactly tear up the AHL. I don’t see trading him as being a bad thing. Maybe under some different coaching he becomes a serviceable player, but the odds are against him.

Gift Carcillo is not a curse word. It is accepted practice. Constructive criticism is not poking people with sticks Your analogy is a fail. P.S. Blocking the site is not a decision that should be left to me to make. Instead, the decision to halt the offensive language is a decision that our fearless blog captain should make, and should make without hesitation. I have read on many occasions our fearless blog captain take others to task for much less than the offensive language that ORR uses.

Alright kiddies, i’m outta here. Got a BBQ to host, and then of course my win-and-in hockey game tonight, Hopefully i have good news to report tomorrow, and i can go Gaborik of 2 seasons ago on them tonight!

sheesh…can’t take the language don’t log onto the site. Kind of like don’t show up to an ice rink if you expect the things the fans(and players) say to be PG. But to pine on about it like this pisses me off. I can take some of the friendly banter here, but the debate over language? Please…

On Grachev: Any guy who asks for a trade because of Gernander isn’t worth his salt. Period. That guy is an incredible coach and has done wonders for the organization. I saw a bit of Grachev last winter and he did look decent at times. But his problem is he refuses to use his size and he refuses to dig deep in the corners. That could come with time. But without those traits, I seriously doubt his prospects in the NHL. He obviously didn’t want to learn much from Gernander. I can’t see that changing in St. Louis. I was against the trade from the outset, but after reading Sather’s comments, good riddance. Hope it works out for him, but I won’t hold my breath for him to become a 35-goal scorer.

I’m sick of this troll – he was spamming the blog without asking permission from Carp to publicize his blog here, he was called on it, and he went away mad.

Now he’s back, and nitpicking anything he can here, just to make himself annoying – I see little evidence that anyone here cares about him, his blog, or his opinions. Now he’s just acting like a troll.

Is obvious trolling permitted on this board now? If so, isn’t it a policy here *NOT* to “feed the trolls”?

Jimbo I am not a troll. I do not like the offensiveness of some of the posts and want to help clean it up so it is more enjoyable for myself and for all. CCCP I have contributed by posting opinions about the Rangers organization. Is banning me a reasonable response because you disagree with my opinions?

Troll-One who purposely and deliberately (that purpose usually being self-amusement) starts an argument in a manner which attacks and irritates others on a forum without in any way listening to the arguments proposed by his or her peers. He will spark such an argument via the use of anything with no substance or relevance to back them up.

As long as you engage in any discussion, he will stick around. He contributes zip! He knows as much about hockey as my Yorkie. Probably less, because Casey watches every game with me. He will use anything- he will offend Orr, stick it to Carp ( directly or indirectly) Just to continue his bull carcillo.

Grachev’s situation isn’t that complex to me. They probably gave up on him too early, yes. But he wanted out. There is no reason to keep him, if that’s the case. He certainly didn’t show enough to be earn an NHL spot yet. He doesn’t want to be here- Do svidaniya!

The second article by LB I posted at 9:37 am is very interesting. The new CBA will be a tough one to iron out. The salary cap obviously didn’t do anything- plenty of team can not financially reach the floor. It is feasible that players will have to take less than 50% of gross starting next year. Some sort of rollback again seems inevitable. Long term contracts may become even more detrimental to any team. The more I think about, the more it is obvious that Ed Snider got rid of those two contracts, in part, to prepare himself for a new CBA. If anyone has an inside track in NHL, it’s him.

Dave, I’ve been doing this for almost three years, I think. Where this blog is now from where it was … we’ve taken enormous steps in removing curse words, inappropriate behavio(u)r, and in banning undesirables and imposters. At the cost, by the way, of a fair amount of traffic. I cleaned it up, and we cleaned it up, because I have nephews and nieces who come here.

This is the cleanest blog on the internet … or at least the cleanest on the internet among those with similar traffic.

You obviously have a problem with one of our regulars, and you are just asking for trouble by going after him repeatedly. And that causes trouble for me, too. So I don’t like it, and I think a lot of my readers agree with me.

If you’re arguing that I give one or more of our regulars a little more latitude, well, you’re right. Too bad. It’s my blog.

I have a problem with offensive language towards women. Please do not mistake that for a problem with another poster. This is not the cleanest blog on the internet with similar traffic. Plenty of other popular blogs have far less offensive language because it is not permitted by the blog administrator(s). It is clear that you support and promote the offensive language towards women. It is your blog, so your support of offensive language is appropriate.

Orr, I’m a newcomer here – so I won’t comment on Tiki, except to say that I don’t think he was/is anything like a troll – he has his issues, but if the old-time folks like Carp and Laurel are his friends, then I consider him a friend, too. Tiki isn’t the problem here.

Jimbo, he’s a borderline troll. He’s on the fence. I used to like him, and would stick up for him, but these days I skip his posts. After he accused Carp, and myself of being racists, that was pretty much it.

Yo DAVE KLEIN , your acting like a freak!!! If your cursing ’bout ORR yer nuts man. That stuff you say about him runs off him like water from a duck back . He been around for years and years dude. You shown up what? A week ago? maybe two? He has senority over you so you should stop acting the fool and just blog the blog man.

I love True Blood. Awesome show! I know these days, Vampire stuff is very sappy, and overall girly, but this show, as Jon Torterella would say, has balls as big as a building. One of my favorites, right up there with Dexter.

I still need to watch Breaking Bad. I have it, but I just haven’t gotten around to watching it. I’ll have to check it out sooner than later!

I just read all 164 posts and you guys really do make my day sometimes. I will agree with Klein on the mere fact that Orr’s little semen comment was a little much but (and Orr please don’t think that i don’t like you because of that, i just disagree.) Carp shouldn’t have to nor will he ban such an important bonehead for something that small. What i don’t understand Klein is instead of just saying “Carp, mind if you tell Orr to cool it with the sexual innuendo and crude comments because (insert excuse here)”, you have to engage in an argument, thus making you a troll, time and time again over the same thing. We have heard your opinion and a decision has been made. Let it go and lets talk Rangers hockey!

Lev, i was thinking the same exact thing. To be honest though, i tend to skip Orr’s comments only based on the fact that i don’t understand them most of the time lmao, unless of course they are related to hockey and then i read them.

I wish Gilroy had panned out for us. I was so happy when we first signed him because he grew up around me. Speaking of Isles defense. I still remember the day we signed Wade Redden to that monster of a contract, whilst Streit was still available and for less money. I threw a fit and was screaming at the stupid TSN guys who announced the signing, for once i can say i was right.

True Blue Mike: I went though the same extreme aggravation over the Lindros acquisition. At the time I did think Brendl was the second coming of Jagr, or somebody, but regardless of how he panned out, it was the PHILOSOPHY of acquiring an older, expensive, partially damaged-goods, with a crap attitude in the case of Lindros, that forever put me on alert that Sather was not going to be bringing multiple Stanley Cup championships our way. I remember how I was red as a beet and just steaming over that one. Absolutely wrecked that entire weekend before I could calm down, a little.

Re the above Development Camp roster, Carl Hagelin jumps off the page as the one to watch, and the one I have ZERO expectations for is Oscar Lindberg – the meat cleaver we acquired for Werek. Hope I’m wrong.

Lindros should have been a Rangers all along. We signed him first but lost out cuz of the handshake deal to Philthy Philly. When all is said , Lindros Dominated . He make stars out off John LeClair and made that Flyers team beasts in the east. He always did wanna play for us cuz Mark Messier was his boyhood idol. You can’t hold anything against him , he should be in the HOF. BTW who cares if I can’t spell Carsillyo.

ilb – Thanks for the Ed Snider update and psychological profile. I have detested him since he ruined former Eagles owner Jerry Woman. Snider sold Jerry a skyscrapper he owned that was still under construction on Lake Michigan in Chicago, and damned if the foundation didn’t sink into the lake. Snider, it was widely reported, had inside information that the structure was in trouble. In any event, he left Wolman holding the bag.

I am seeing columns around speculating that the lower cap coming in the next CBA, will result in the disbanding of two NHL franchises. Thus the proposed move, announced by Bettman, of the league reverting to four divisions. Only the Players Union would object to this inevitability. I think it will be wonderfully positive for the game, in numerous ways. Imagine, the league has expanded from six to 30 teams, yet is supposed to forfeit the right to make decisions as regards a minor, extremely practical contraction. “All for me, nothing for you” is as tiresome and selfish as it gets. Finally, it will be good to see a professional players sports union take a small dose of its own medicine – for once and probably the final time. Talk about a stacked deck and a rigged game – the owners vs. TV ( which controls all sports), the courts (which ALWAYS side and rule with the players), and the unions is as one-sided as it gets. And if those NFL and NBA boys want to take a season or two off, because they are so exploited and “underpaid” to recline on their yachts with the sauce and with every floosie blonde they can dig up, they won’t be missed much, outside of Las Vegas.

Interesting take Carp ….I believe you think we would of gave up too much to get him? Back then if we had offered picks ( all the picks were busts back then) we would have still won the cup that year …maybe? How do you figure?

The trade ultimately saw Peter Forsberg, Mike Ricci, Ron Hextall, Steve Duchesne, Kerry Huffman, Chris Simon, two first-round picks (Jocelyn Thibault, Nolan Baumgartner), and $15 million going to Quebec in exchange for the inaugural Next One. The deal remains one of the most significant and lopsided trades in NHL history.”

The Rangers definitely would not have wop a Cup in ’94 if they gave up the players above. However Colorado Avalanche fans should put up a statue to Lindros and send him a Christmas card every year for refusing to play for Quebec.

Since Lindros never won a Cup with even the best of the Flyers teams, it’s safe to say he wouldn’t have won one in NY either.

I’ve often wondered how the Rangers would have done if Lindros was allowed to come here – that was a massive “jobbing” that they took with that so-called “handshake deal”…..

He was a *monster* with Philly for quite a few years, but they never won the Cup, because of their legendary failure to get a good goaltender….

I think the Lindros family might have some kind of genetic predisposition to being concussion-prone, if such a thing is medically possible… Eric’s brother Brett(?) Lindros had his career ended by a concussion in his first few professional games, as a member of the Islanders….

” Doug Weight, Tony Amonte, Alexei Kovalev, John Vanbiesbrouck, three first round draft picks, and $12 million” with the exeption to Kovalev none of those players won the cup in ’94 . We peddled all of ‘em and won the cup. If we got Lindros instead ..we would have won more then one like Carp said.

right, but maybe not the ’94 Cup with the players Amonte and Weight brought, and minus Kovalev … about whom at that point, in ’94, it was thought that maybe he could be a better player ultimately than Lindros.

THats a right MIKEY(Grabby)!!!! Ok sure sure you and I occasionally spell the odd word or two wrong…so sue us. Call us stuiped for spelling stuiped wrong really is stuiped but who says whos stuiped just because they spell stuiped wrong? You follow me here?

Let’s see, the Rangers won a Cup WITHOUT Lindros, Philly won nothing WITH Lindros, and players like Amonte and Weight brought the Rangers some catalysts to their Stanley Cup championship in 1994. On balance, it looks like a case can be made for what the Buddhists call “Hendoku Iyaku,” which means “changing poison into medicine.” So often, initial disappointment turns out to be the greatest fortune. The entire Rangers organization and fans were due for a little luck and when we got we cashed it in.

Thank you Eric Lindros, if I didn’t dislike you (and your smothering, controlling parents who probably still run your life), so much, I would say we should add your name, with an asterisk, to the names of Rangers players engraved on the Cup, in 1994.

Oh, yes, when Lindros did finally come to New York, guess who DIDN’T win the Stanley Cup with “spoiled baby number one” on our side? So that he didn’t win in Philly, New York did win when he was in Philly, and New York did not win when “home boy” was in New York. Got the picture?

Look Olga , game 7 . 1994 went down to game seven . We almost lost but Leetch and Graves came through . ok ok Ritchter and Messier didnt play too bad but other then that all those players were …umm gone , done..kaputt after 1994 sad to say. The saying “Matteau ,Matteau ,Matteau..” would have been” LINDROS hatty !!”seals the deal . That game would never had went to OT against the Devils if we had Lindros…Carp sees what im talk N ’bout.

I don’t have the animosity I used to have for him any more, Boom Boom – there was a LOT to dislike back in the day, though. I really think his parents did him no favors by being in such control of his career – if he had *professional* management, he might have fared a whole lot better.

Great. I left this blog a long time ago because of the bs everyone pulls and the one day I come back and ask a question because I actually was curious to hear what someone else says, I get an asshole response.

lindros had a funny moment when he was with dallas. i think we were playing him, but he got cauht on our end cuz his stick got stuck in the boards. he didnt leave it to get a new one. he just wrestled with it for a good 10-15 seconds .at least it seemed that long. he was a mess

i know, the best was when orr got harrased for not going to college instead of chat. like hes the blog orphan needing good parental advice. first of all, how would the guy know orr is here alot if hes not here alot himself?

Wow. I picked a great day to return to the blog. When i left a few months ago, Orr was the “Golden Boy” of the blog. I come back and he is like the “Piss Boy” (been dying to use a Mel Brooks reference today)

When people say “one thing,” a lot of times there’s multiple answers and just one specific thing they’re thinking of; I wasn’t gonna be a complete aasen and go “he used the home locker room at MSG” or something like that, I really was curious. I truly apologize.

Mr Klein, your endless promotion of your blog on here is far more offensive, in my opinion, than the so-called women bashing you claim exists here.

Carp gives you free marketing to promote your website and then you complain that his blog isn’t tasteful enough for you and your “daughter”. I’m also pretty sure you don’t have a young daughter who reads this comment section and that you pulled that out of your Aasen. (does Aasen offend you too or should I make it age appropriate also?)